(AFP) A knife attack that killed one tourist and seriously injured another in the German city of Dresden in early October is being treated as a terrorist attack, prosecutors said Wednesday, turning fears to Islamist violence after a string of far-right attacks.
A 20-year-old Syrian man was arrested on Tuesday evening and is believed to have an Islamist background, federal prosecutors in the city of Karlsruhe said, just days after the shocking, apparently religiously-motivated beheading of a teacher in France.
The suspect allegedly attacked the two tourists, who had travelled together from North Rhine-Westphalia, on October 4.
One of them, a 55-year-old man, later died from his injuries in hospital. The other, aged 53, survived with serious injuries.
